Re the 100 watts, is the power the same into 4 ohms? Also, anyone had the chance to compare with some of the other highly regarded amps using some form of digital technology: Spectron, PS Audio, H2O, etc?
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Sorry, my last post was a graph garbled from the NuForce website (my laptop slipped, and I caught it by the keyboard accidentally hitting the return key enought times to post). The Reference 8's power is 100 watts continuous into 8, 4, and 2 ohms. Where the NuForce apparently differs from other switching amps is its peak power reserves. It has almost 1200 watts into 2 ohms. Check out the NuForce website for more details. http://nuforce.com/products.htm |
After months of extended listening with rock, classical, vocal, acoustic and jazz from my collection....I have decided to sell all my tube amplifiers in favor of the Nuforce 8 monos. [Note that none of my tube amps are single-ended.] There it is. I won't miss biasing and replacing the tubes. Not to mention the heat, the expense, and the guilt associated with using all that electricity! Those interested in the Nuforce amps may wish to read this StereoTimes review. for the music |
Kck: Just this weekend another Apogeeoholic finished his comparison of the Reference 8's to his stereo H20 Signature : http://audioworld.com/sw/Forum1/HTML/004446-2.html The short story is that in the context of his system, the Reference 8's came in a close second. The context of the system is important as they were driving the impedance from hell Scintillas in their one ohm configuration. There were no uncontained failures, in-flight shutdowns or aborted takeoffs. These amps do indeed appear to be great bang for the buck. Jeff |
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